31 July 2014 Last updated at 23:41 Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. Footage taken by eyewitnesses showed huge fires at the scene A series of gas explosions in the southern Taiwanese city of Kaohsiung has killed 20 people and injured about 270, officials say. The exact cause of the gas leaks [...]

1 August 2014 Last updated at 00:01 By James Gallagher Health editor, BBC News website Just one human genome contains more than three billion base pairs – the building blocks of DNA A project aiming to revolutionise medicine by unlocking the secrets of DNA is under way in centres across England. Prime Minister David Cameron [...]

1 August 2014 Last updated at 00:44 News of the latest ceasefire comes nearly a month into Israel’s operation against Hamas in Gaza Israel and Hamas have agreed to an unconditional 72-hour humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza from 08:00 (05:00 GMT) on Friday. A joint US and UN statement urged all parties to “act with restraint” [...]

30 July 2014 Last updated at 23:57 Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. Aerial footage of Eastbourne Pier on fire A devastating fire has torn through Eastbourne Pier. The main roof of the pier, built in the East Sussex seaside town in the 1870s, has been completely destroyed, leaving only a metal [...]

30 July 2014 Last updated at 22:20 Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. UK Foreign Secretary: “Ebola is something we need to respond to.” The UK’s health services have the experience to deal with the threat posed by the Ebola virus, Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond has said. Mr Hammond said ministers had [...]

30 July 2014 Last updated at 20:52 Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. Families of the victims of the attack on a UN-run school have been grieving at a hospital that received the injured, as Ian Pannell reports The US and UN have condemned the shelling of a school housing displaced civilians [...]

29 July 2014 Last updated at 13:28 Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. Alfie Sullock was left with brain damage after being attacked with a shoe and a plastic bottle A man who killed his girlfriend’s six-week-old baby by battering him with a shoe and plastic bottle has been found guilty of [...]

29 July 2014 Last updated at 21:25 Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. The BBC’s Orla Guerin was given access by the Israeli military to a tunnel used by Palestinian militants More than 100 Palestinians are said to have been killed as Israel intensified its bombardment of Gaza and a ceasefire proposal [...]

29 July 2014 Last updated at 21:44 Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. Speaking at the White House, President Obama said: “If Russia continues on its current path, the cost on Russia will continue to grow” US President Barack Obama has announced new economic sanctions against Russia, saying they will make Russia’s [...]

28 July 2014 Last updated at 21:13 David Ruffley has been the Conservative MP for Bury St Edmunds since 1997 Tory MP David Ruffley is to retire from Parliament at the next election. The MP for Bury St Edmunds had been under pressure after accepting a police caution for a common assault on his former [...]